Posted by GregoryHeller on December 31, 2010 at 8:11pm
Start:
2011-01-20 18:00 - 19:30 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Amazon South Lake Union Campus 421 Boren Ave N Seattle, WA 98109
421 Boren Ave N/426 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
Learn about Drupal and meet local Drupal enthusiasts. We meet from 6 pm until 7:30 pm, then reserve the last half-hour for proper socializing, snacking, and further discussion at a local pub. Last month we went to the Southlake Grill (near REI) which as a block further than Patty Coynes, but I think we all enjoyed it more, so we will plan on that.
Coworking will be a block away at Moka Coffee around 3:30pm.
Agenda
- Brief One Breath introductions
- DrupalCon Session Proposals -- what did you submit?
- Lightning talks
- problem/solution breakout session: 30 minutes. Please post your problem in the comments below before the meeting.
If you want to add items to the agenda, please leave a comment.
Comments
Hi, looking to meet others from Amazon with Drupal knowledge
Anyone else from Amazon going to attend?
Breakout topic: Barnraising/Dojo project
Breakout topic: Barnraising/Dojo project
See background discussion:
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/113974
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/108129
Suggested topics (30 minutes):
- Setup wiki with scribes to capture meeting notes.
- Outline common/uncommon objectives between barnraisings and Dojos
- Outline major steps for B/D project with a floating timeline
- Discuss best practices for a combined B/D project
- Designate interim communication channel(s) for B/D project
- Action items before the next meeting (in no particular order)
-- Find candidate client(s) for barnraising - preferrably with requirements that fit timeline
-- Find venue(s) for B/D project with preliminary dates
-- Setup project platform to assign & track tasks
-- Idententify technologies for conferencing/capturing/documenting B/D project
-- etc.
2nd meeting tentative topics:
- Get consensus on
-- Venue(s) and frequency
-- Final products for the Dojo
-- A barnraising client
-- Best practices for B/D project
-- Technologies for B/D project
- Formalize client requirements (1st draft)
- etc.
Planning meetings should start with a draft agenda and end with action items. Once people get their grooves on, the meetings will be sprints for requirements/architecture/design/installation/configuration/theming/testing/recording/documenting/testing/testing/drinking ;-).
Great topic
Thanks for putting this summary together. Sounds like a great opportunity to get moving and grooving on some good for learning Drupal/good for the community projects.
Gus Austin
Problems for Breakout Session
Wanting to learn more about Drupal
Hi! I volunteer for a non-profit and we want to completely redo the website and we decided to go with Drupal for better maintainability (the two prior incarnations of the website were hacked together and utterly unmaintainable). I plan to attend to see what I can learn. See you tomorrow!
Lightning talk
If people are interested, I could do a quick talk about some htaccess fu I've been doing lately -- such as forwarding an old drupal site to a new one, while still allowing administrative access to the old one.
htaccess
Let me know if you're still having htaccess issues; I can usually figure them out.
Odds are I will not be able to make it tonight; but here is a new module I just created last night.
http://drupal.org/project/views_javascript_random
CVS didn't grab the file I had inside the handlers dir so pull in from CVS or wait 4-5 hours from the time of this post for the lastest dev to get re-packed.
One more I created last week that might be of interest as well:
http://drupal.org/project/imageinfo_cache
RockSoup is willing to walk
RockSoup is willing to walk us through installing Drush
Drupal & IE6
I have a client who's website was done in Drupal, I was able to finish the website with the help of Jennifer, but we have found a navigation button that doesn't line up with the other button on the welcome page. This client is still using IE6. In newer versions the navigation lines up just fine. I did suggest to him that he needs to up date IE. Any help would be appreciated.
Annette
Non-Profits
I also am a member of a non-profit organization. We are in need of help in setting up a new Drupal website. Our current site was done in html and css. The website committee met last week and came up with some good ideas and like what they are seeing with Drupal.
The theme they would like to use is the Simply Modern Theme. I have downloaded it and Drupal 7 to my computer. What is the next step to set up the site correct? We have free space at DreamHost for non-profits and as far as I can tell it is ready to use.
You talk of having a barn raising for a website. It would be great to have that kind of help in getting this job done. We can use all the help that we can get.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Annette
Annette